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What Do We Know About US Gun Violence?

What Do We Know About US Gun Violence? Garen Wintemute, a professor of emergency room medicine and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California–Davis, is one of a handful of U.S. researchers brave enough to tackle the problem of gun violence. He tells Tiffany O’Callaghan why it is so hard to make inroads. Tiffany O’Callaghan: How bad is gun violence in the U.S.? Garen Wintemute: It takes upwards of 30,000 lives a year and injures another 75,000. We spend $100… [Slate (USA) / New Scientist, via GunPolicy.org]